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The announcement Saturday, delivered in uncharacteristically blunt language for the Vatican, meant that the 88-year-old McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., becomes the highest-ranking churchman and the first cardinal to be punished by dismissal from the clerical state, or laicization.

Then-Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais also said in a statement that Huels had "announced his intention to leave the Servite order and seek laicization" and stressed that the archdiocese had not previously been informed of any "inappropriate behavior" in Huels' background.

Although she formed a soulful attachment to an equally young priest, she refused his offer of laicization and marriage, believing completely in her vocation and the value of her work.

The essayist notes, rightfully so, that a remarkable benefit of modernity is "the laicization of political action the separation of the political power from the religious power", a separation regarding especially the governing issue, and considers several essential constituents (institutional construction, judicial framework construction on lay principles, public morality on ethical, not theological, principles etc.).

In them, he considers many of the challenges that beset church and campus, such as the laicization of priests, premarital sex, the erosion of institutional authority, intolerance toward gay people, and failure of fidelity to the teachings of the church.

Josef Wesolowski had already been defrocked in June after the Vatican's canon law court found him guilty of abuse and imposed its toughest penalty under church law: laicization, or returning to life as a layman.

Another chapter deals with whatYocum calls the 'laicization' of the Carthusian liturgy, relating Petrarch's Augustinian theological stance, as well as his clerical status and how he used it to achieve independence from authority.

Wesolowski was found guilty by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and sentenced to the harshest penalty possible against a cleric: laicization. He can no longer perform priestly duties or present himself as a priest.

The laicization came shortly after the Maryknoll Fathers decided to remove him from their order, with the Vatican exerting strong pressure for this decision.

Lahey's lawyer noted that his client has requested "laicization" from Rome, something recently confirmed by Archbishop Martin Currie of St.

Through a systematic and detailed analysis of carefully selected texts by the key authors of this period, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, Cerocchi, a trained and accomplished musician himself, makes a convincing case of the significant role music played in the process of laicization of the Italian society and in the gradual shift from a sacred to a profane dimension, which contributed to the "emancipazione della civilta italiana dal sistema teocentrico medievale" (viii).